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...answers he may come up with. How to make a peace between the black and the white inside him (or inside our cities and our country)? How to do right by our relatives in Africa without dishonoring the grandparents from Kansas who raised us? How to bring the modest Muslim school in Java together with Harvard Law School? The questions Obama has been thinking about all his life are the very ones that dominate the world today. And the mounting economic crisis only makes the construction of a wider identity - and conversing across the waters - more urgent, not less...
...preserve a basic right, it was the anti-equality side in California that seemed to have the most fervor. A symbolic low point for the gay side came on Oct. 13, when the Sacramento Bee ran a remarkable story about Rick and Pam Patterson, a Mormon couple of modest means - he drives a 10-year-old Honda Civic, she raises their five boys - who had withdrawn $50,000 from their savings account and given it to the pro-8 campaign. "It was a decision we made very prayerfully," Pam Patterson, 48, told the Bee's Jennifer Garza...
John McCain ended his campaign as he began it: On his own terms, in front of a relatively modest crowd...
...such an explicitly culinary journey, cultural stories should spring from the food and not the other way around. For instance, it is only once Barlow arrives at the house of Castro’s cousin that he searches for a connection to food. Finding none, other than a modest meal she serves, he rambles instead about Galician migration to Cuba. Barlow doesn’t even attempt to find a porcine connection in his visit with Don Manuel Fraga Iribarne, an eminent Spanish politician. I understand that Fraga is the most famous Galician alive, but if he has nothing...
...back to campus, Burruss opens up about her past as a designer. “My grandma sewed a lot and my mom sewed her own maternity wardrobe. She is the one who taught me how to work the sewing machine,” she says. Burruss is modest about her own status as a designer, saying that she designs and constructs clothes simply out of a love for constructing. She does make occasional sketches, but most of her ideas are stored right in her own mind. “I’m not too good...